Parts of Speech Review

Nouns are people, places and things.  

Verb phrases can be confusing because of the helping verbs.

Interjections are the least common of all eight parts of speech.

Another word for helping is auxiliary. 

The conjunctions list contains fewer words than the prepositions list.

Hopefully you will know enough to pass your quiz.

We can look at the list and use it to find some answers.

Having lists to look at doesn't always make it easier.

An important tip to locating adverbs is to look for words ending in "ly".

As a class we all survived.

There are three key questions for finding adjectives.

When words function as conjunctions they are joining words, phrases or clauses.

Verbs are usually action words.

Key questions help us determine whether a word is an adjective or an adverb.

Adjectives and adverbs are both describing words.

The context and the function of the word will determine its category.

Some lessons were MORE difficult than others.

You will write the quiz tomorrow.

That other list is the conjunctions list.

Some of it was easy BUT some of it was hard.

If you have one in a sentence, hooray!

Now there is only one category left.

Nouns were easiest for most people because we have studied them before.

Prepositions might be easier to locate because there aren't as many in most sentences.

We have FINISHED our review of parts of speech.

A prepositional phrase must always end with a noun.

If you are using a preposition list, be careful - some words may appear on another list, too.

There is no limit to the number of adjectives or adverbs in a piece of writing.

Helping verbs are small words like can, will, must and should.

We have to diligently examine all of the questions.